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Deborah Fahy Bryceson

Deborah Fahy Bryceson

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
43
Citations
11784
World Ranking
4305
National Ranking
720

Overview

Deborah Fahy Bryceson is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within Social Sciences and Engineering, with particular emphasis on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Building and Construction, Urban Studies, Demography, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

The core topics addressed in their work include:

  • Mining and Resource Management
  • Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
  • Urban and Rural Development Challenges
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Natural Resources and Economic Development
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure

Deborah Fahy Bryceson has published in various academic venues, notably:

  • Journal of Eastern African Studies
  • Area
  • Mobilities
  • International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
  • Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Mining in Africa after the supercycle: New directions and geographies" (2021), published in Area
  • "Mining mobility and settlement during an East African gold boom: Seeking fortune and accommodating fate" (2020), published in Mobilities
  • "MINERALIZED URBANIZATION IN AFRICA IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: Becoming Urban through Mining Extraction" (2022), published in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
  • "Transnational Families and Neo-Liberal Globalisation: Past, Present and Future" (2022), published in Nordic Journal of Migration Research
  • "Wealth and poverty in mining Africa: migration, settlement and occupational change in Tanzania during the global mineral boom, 2002-2012" (2023), published in Journal of Eastern African Studies

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Jesper Bosse Jønsson
  • Mike Shand
  • Javiera Cienfuegos Illanes
  • Rosa María Brandhorst
  • Blair Xvii

In addition to journal articles, Deborah Fahy Bryceson has contributed to books published by major academic publishers. These include:

  • "Handbook of Transnational Families Around the World" (2023), published by Springer Nature (Netherlands)
  • "Conjugal Trajectories: Relationship Beginnings, Change, and Dissolutions" (2023), published by Elsevier BV

Best Publications

  • The Transnational Family: New European Frontiers and Global Networks

    Deborah Fahy Bryceson;Ulla Vuorela

  • The Scramble in Africa: Reorienting Rural Livelihoods

    Deborah Fahy Bryceson

  • Transnational Families in the Twenty-first Century

    Deborah Fahy Bryceson;Ulla Vuorela

  • Deagrarianization and Rural Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Sectoral Perspective

    Deborah Fahy Bryceson

  • African rural labour, income diversification and livelihood approaches: a long-term development perspective

    Deborah Fahy Bryceson

  • Farewell to farms: de-agrarianisation and employment in Africa.

    Deborah Fahy Bryceson;Vali Jamal

  • Multiplex livelihoods in rural Africa: recasting the terms and conditions of gainful employment

    Deborah Fahy Bryceson

  • Rural Africa at the crossroads: livelihood practices and policies.

    D. F. Bryceson

  • Disappearing peasantries? : rural labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America

    Deborah Bryceson;Christóbal Kay;Jos Mooij

  • Gold digging careers in rural east Africa: small-scale miners' livelihood choices.

    Deborah Fahy Bryceson;Jesper Bosse Jønsson

  • Roads to Poverty Reduction? Exploring Rural Roads' Impact on Mobility in Africa and Asia

    Deborah Fahy Bryceson;Annabel Bradbury;Trevor Bradbury

  • Liberalizing Tanzania's Food Trade: Public & Private Faces of Urban Marketing Policy, 1939-1988

    Deborah Fahy Bryceson

  • Peasant theories and smallholder policies: Past and present

    D. Bryceson

  • Sub-Saharan Africa betwixt and between: rural livelihood practices and policies

    Deborah Fahy Bryceson

  • Women Wielding the Hoe: Lessons From Rural Africa for Feminist Theory and Development Practice

    Deborah Fahy Bryceson

  • Disappearing peasantries? Rural labour redundancy in the neo-liberal era and beyond

    D. Bryceson

  • Rural household transport in Africa: Reducing the burden on women?

    Deborah Fahy Bryceson;John Howe

  • Rushing for Gold: Mobility and Small‐Scale Mining in East Africa

    Jesper Bosse Jønsson;Deborah Fahy Bryceson

  • Food insecurity and the social division of labour in Tanzania, 1919-85.

    D. F. Bryceson

  • Transnational families negotiating migration and care life cycles across nation-state borders

    Deborah Fahy Bryceson

  • Making a Living: Changing Livelihoods in Rural Africa

    Deborah Fahy Bryceson;Elizabeth Francis

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Rigg
Jonathan Rigg University of Bristol
Danny MacKinnon
Danny MacKinnon Newcastle University
Anthony Bebbington
Anthony Bebbington Clark University

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